Impact of Crack on Stability of Slope with Linearly Increasing Undrained Strength

Table 1

Comparisons of stability number for between LE results of Koppula [6] and the results of this study.

	LE result [6]	Closed-form solution (this study)
		No crack	Tension crack
0.5	0.1244	0.1244	0.1267
1.0	0.0984	0.0985	0.0997
2.0	0.0697	0.0698	0.0703
3.0	0.0541	0.0541	0.0544
4.0	0.0442	0.0442	0.0444
5.0	0.0374	0.0374	0.0375
10.0	0.0211	0.0211	0.0212